Two weeks off the net due to computer problems has given me time to get some design work done on my Full Armor of God Blog – Full Armor of God Warriors and also a rather graphical series I’ve called “The Attacks” – ways the devil has of socking it to us in our daily lives.
I’ll be putting up the Attack sketches shortly at Full Armor of God as part of the series of illustrations that I’m developing there, because pictures speak louder than words. But first of all here’s the first of the full-color Warrior posters that I made while I was offline::
Full Armor of God Warrior Girl 1
The sketch for this new design pleased me so much I decided to go straight ahead and create the first of the color posters with it – I hope the male warriors out there don’t feel deprived because this first one happens to be a female !!
As I worked on her it came to me that this little warrior girl is carrying out the great commission. She isn’t just armed against the attacks of the devil in her own life – here she is, storming the Gates of Hell, taking the battle right to the serpent in his lair, in order to free the untold millions of people trapped in a living hell in this world by the wiles of the devil and his associates.
I was thinking especially of the spirit demons that operate in Africa and Asia, keeping multitudes in spiritual darkness under their domination.
If you are in any doubt AT ALL about the reality of all this, I recommend you go straight to the Gospel for Asia website and order the free book “Revolution in World Missions” by K P Yohannen, the missionary leader of GFA. He has a unique insight into the plight of Asia, having been born and called to missionary work in India before God brought him to Dallas, Texas to gain an understanding of Christianity in the west and to develop his mission. Don’t continue in darkness about the realities of spiritual warfare in this world – if you haven’t read it, read this book SOON!
I’d like to add to my earlier post on this topic with some further wisdom gleaned from Gunther Bornkamm’s book “Paul“.
My earlier post, Saint Paul and the Church at Corinth explained some of the historical and cultural background behind 2 Corinthians, and gave some details of daily life in Corinth that help with understanding the cultural issues that Paul was dealing with in his management of the church there.
The response I’ve had to that post has led me to delve deeper into Bornkamm’s more detailed analysis of the writings in 2 Corinthians, and I feel I should share my understanding of what the scholars are saying about this difficult book, in the hope that others too might be interested. No doubt, some people will be aware of all this, but I certainly was not.
It appears that the scholars are fairly well agreed that 2 Corinthians as it stands now is actually a subsequent compilation of several of Paul’s letters, not in chronological order. This is one of the things that makes for difficulties in understanding the book.
It’s clear from what Bornkamm says that a number of scholars at least are in agreement with what he propounds. As a preface, Letters (A) and (B) – 1 Corinthians – are regarded as being either one letter, or so close chronologically as to be treated as one letter.
Here is a brief of Bornkamm’s breakdown of 2 Corinthians as I understand it:
Letter (C): 2 Corinthians 2:14 – 7:4. This was Paul’s first defence of his apostolic office written early on in the struggle when he first heard of the agitation within the church, and still had trust that the church was loyal and strong enough to resist it.
Letter (D): 2 Corinthians 10 – 13. Written while the battle was at its height, when Paul pulled out all stops to defend his position and bring the church back onto the straight and narrow. He later referred to this as the “painful letter”.
Letter (E): 2 Corinthians 1:1 – 2:13 and 7:5-16. The letter of reconciliation, in which Paul looks back on the struggle, and expresses his pleasure at the good reports he has received of the church from Titus’ last visit.
Letter (F): 2 Corinthins 8. Short personal letter of recommendation for Titus, dealing with the matter of collections.
Letter (G): 2 Corinthians 9. A further letter about collections, composed after 2 Corinthians 8 and on the occasion of a later visit by some of Paul’s associates.
Note: it appears that because of some stylistic issues the scholars are pretty much in agreement that 2 Corinthians 6:14 – 7:1 was an insertion by later editors, and was not written by Saint Paul.
Bornkamm explains that Letter (D) was most probably placed at the end of the compilation because of a formal convention of the times, which was to place warnings against heresy at the end of writings. This convention was apparently adopted because heresy had been announced as one of the perils of the end times.
I have to say that Bornkamm’s book does not contain a tidy listing of the arrangement of the Letters, such as I have provided above. I had to read carefully and take notes from his Appendix II and go through some of the parts of 2 Corinthians to come up with this listing. Any errors in that process are mine.
I hope this also is of help to people in their reading of 2 Corinthians.
If you are interested in Saint Paul’s words about the Full Armor of God in Ephesians 6 : 13-17, visit my Full Armor of God Blog – I am adding to it regularly.
I recently put up a series of posts about events surrounding my mom’s death in February 2007 and my dad’s death in August 1985 on my Alzheimers Carer Blog.
NOW – I didn’t do that to say, “Look at me!” Far from it. I am simply offering my experiences in the hope that they might be of help to someone else. I know very well what it’s like to be in that lonely place called the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and I’m more than ever convinced that we are not alone there, even though it may feel that way sometimes.
We are all individuals, and in some ways our experiences are going to be individual. But basically, I am no different from anyone else. God is faithful, His orchestration of events is masterly, and He does not give up on us. He is there for every single one of us, IF our motives are right and IF we will only seek Him.
And those are two big IFs. Nearly 2000 years ago words were written that sum up very clearly how big those two IFs are.
One of my favorite reads is the Epistle of James the brother of Jesus, written to the expatriate Hebrews living throughout the Mediterranean world. I admire this book tremendously.
James has the same forthright, no-messing style that his brother had. Jesus called a spade a spade and He didn’t hesitate to rebuke and condemn where necessary. It’s significant that His words of condemnation were saved not for sinners or the down-and-outs but for the rich and the powerful of His time – the pillars of the Church, no less. Jesus came to state the truth and to prove that power does not reside in earthly wealth or position. No wonder he was executed.
James is well worth a read in a day and age when we are struggling to undertand why some of our greatest edifices are crumbling beneath our feet. Especially in a good modern translation he comes across clear and strong:
“You want things but you cannot have them, so you are ready to kill. You desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight.
“You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. And when you ask you do not receive because your motives are bad.”
James 4:2-3
This applies to individuals, it applies to families, it applies to corporations and it applies to governments. It is at the root of all our troubles.
When we seek Him, not out of our pathetic, inflated pretensions, but out of the realization of our – dare I say it – sin: not greedily seeking our own ends but out of genuine selflessness, THEN, I believe, He reaches out to us. If we drop our little prides and prejudices, if we drop our egos, the “I did it my way” myth and the “this is what I want”; if we look in cold hard blood at what we are, we do not deserve any more than that. We have placed a gulf between ourselves and the good – and WE are the ones who have to turn back and bridge it. It has to be a learning process, and it will be as hard on us as we choose to make it.
So many people say “If there is a God why does He not listen to us?“ “How can a God who is good allow all this evil in the world?”
Get over it. Grow up. We were granted the gift of free will and we used it – and still use it daily – to open the doors for evil. WE have to do the repair work – on ourselves, our families, our communities, our businesses, our governments. With His help.
I’ve just had my perspective pretty much changed on what it is that churches should be doing. It’s salutary to “stand corrected” and to have to rethink one’s ideas. Well, I’m a fairly new Christian (in the “born-again” sense) so that’s to be expected, I can hear you say.
True, but maybe a lot of long-time Christians are in need of a rethink too, because we all tend to slip into patterns of thinking that come to us from the basic assumptions of our church or our teachers. I suspect that established churches in westen countries tend to be focused around their assets (the Church building, the Sunday-School building, the Hall…), and their good works (the soup kitchen, the food parcels, the fundraising, relieving poverty…), and the energy and money required to keep the whole thing afloat.
The value of humanitarian works is not to be denied, and I have to admit I’ve been very enthusiastic about good works of this nature in the past. After all, what could be more logical than supplying a community need and using that as an outreach tool? Or so I thought. After all, this is how overseas missionary work was conducted in the 19th and 20th centuries. So that’s fine, isn’t it?
Well, I’m not so sure, now. One of the most startling things that jumped out at me from the pages of K P Yohannan’s “Revolution in World Missions” is the basic, basic fact that saving souls is more important than all the good works you can think of.
K P has a special calling, because he not only has a huge depth of knowledge on the history and cultures of Asian countries as a native-born, but because God plucked him out of India, where he was already a missionary, and translocated him into the western world – Texas, USA to be precise. K P can see into both worlds, with the wisdom of that encompassing overview, and it is a privilege to read his book and learn from his insights.
I have to say that reading “Revolution in World Missions” made me feel like I had been transported back into the days of the early Christian Church. There is the same focus and clarity of vision, the same “non-worldliness”, the same priority for saving souls from the devil. And, let’s face it, if we accept the Bible as God’s word, we have to accept that any human being who has not committed his soul to Jesus Christ is part of the devil’s real estate.
While K P does not denounce humanitarian aid – and his own mission is doing good works as well as winning souls for Christ – he DOES denounce the tendency for such aid to get out of balance. He sees this as a trick of the devil to deflect the power of the Gospel, and I have to say I think he is right. To back up his thesis, he has some great statistics that show how ineffective some of the 19th/20th century humanitarian missionary efforts were in actually saving souls. He cites Thailand, China and parts of India as cases in point. I have seen exactly the same thing happen to outreach programs here in New Zealand.
I’d like to quote one of the most striking passages in K P’s book:
“To keep Christian missions off balance, Satan has woven a masterful web of deceit and lies. He has invented a whole system of appealing half-truths to confuse the Church and ensure that millions go to hell without ever receiving the Gospel. Here are a few of his more common inventions: …
3) They will not listen to the Gospel unless we offer them something else first. I have sat on the streets of Bombay with beggars – poor men who very soon would die. In sharing the Gospel with many of them, I told them I had no material goods to give them, but I came to offer eternal life. … What a joy it was to see some of them opening their hearts after hearing of the forgiveness of sin they can find in Jesus! That is exactly what the Bible teaches in Rom 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Substituting a bowl of rice for the Holy Spirit and the Word of God will never save a soul and will rarely change the attitude of a man’s heart. We will not even begin to make a dent in the kingdom of darkess until we lift up Christ with all the authority, power and revelation that is given to us in the Bible.”
We shouldn’t need to be told that the salt and flavor of Christ’s mission has been watered down over the centuries since he trod on earth. I am sure that “Feed my sheep!” does not mean set up soup kitchens and hospitals, and if you have the time and money left, THEN do a bit of preaching. That was certainly not how the Apostles and Paul interpreted it, and they were a whole lot closer to the Lord than we are.
I recently had it put to me that growing Christians must evidence a hunger for change, and that growing involves the processes of failure, correction, overcoming blind spots, and overcoming strongholds. Takes a bit of digesting to pick this up and apply it to ourselves, but I suspect that’s just what’s needed here.
If you haven’t read it, “Revolution in World Missions” is a free 240 page book that I cannot recommend too highly. Click on the title to order your free copy…
If you haven’t heard of Lee Strobel, he is a law school graduate. He had a brilliant career as Legal Editor of the Chicago Tribune.
But against all the odds, this hard-nosed investigative journalist became a Christian. He is now applying his training and also his investigative techniques to Christianity, and the results of his work and the answers to the hard questions he has asked are available on his website, Lee Strobel.Com free to all comers.
I first “met” Lee through a video that someone referred me to on a First Redeemer Church website. You can watch it HERE – and I recommend you do.
This video is worth watching – believe me. As a law school graduate and a hard-nosed investigative journalist, Lee not only has the required cynicism and legal training to make his testimony extremely valuable, but he also has a great speaking style and sense of humor that make this a really racy and memorable delivery.
Now an ardent and vocal Christian, Lee’s first contact with the Lord occurred when his agnostic wife decided to become a Christian. He frankly states that the first word that went through his mind when she told him of this decision was “divorce”.
In spite of his total opposition to her decision, he admits the changes he saw in his wife over the next few months made him agree to accept her invitation to go to church one day. In his own words, his expectation was that he would “get her over this cult”. However, the inspired sermon he heard there drove him to spend the next 2 years subjecting the Bible story of Jesus Christ to all the investigative tests that he used as part of his editorship at the Chicago Tribune.
It is fascinating to watch Lee’s description of how he applied his trained brain and his ingrained investigative process to the story of Jesus and the beginnings of the Christian Church. This man has really done his job. Not only did he immerse himself in exhibit A (The Old and New Testaments) – he spent those 2 years on researching all the historical records of the period (which are many), and on interviewing medical experts and unbiassed historians as well. He finally sat down and made a huge list of the many pages of evidence he had gathered and suddenly realised in the light of all that evidence it actually required more “faith” to stay an atheist than it did to become a Christian.
Do not miss out on This Video. Lee’s testimony is not a 2 minute affair, and it’s embedded in a church service, but I promise you, you will not regret spending the time to watch it.
Have you struggled with understanding the Epistles to the Corinthians? I surely have, and 2 Corinthins seems so fragmented at times it’s hard to make sense of it.
I don’t know about you, but by and large I find 1 and 2 Corinthians a hard read. Some great quotes can be found in these Epistles, but it can be hard to understand the flow and purpose of the letters as a whole.
In 1978 I gave my father the book “Paul” by Gunther Bornkamm, and I’ve just started reading it. (!) At last the Letters to the Church at Corinth are beginning to make sense, and it’s wonderful to have an understanding of the events that gave rise to the flow of Paul’s thoughts as expressed in the two Epistles.
Bornkamm explains that the problem with Corinth arose because the Church there was under threat from certain members who regarded themselves as “spirit-filled”. These people were putting their own interpretations on the doctrines of the young church, and ultimately these free thinkers and others like them went on to mount a serious attack on Paul’s credentials as an apostle.
Here’s a brief excerpt from Bornkamm’s discussion on 1 Corinthians:
“The present-day reader may be surprised to find that in Corinth the dominant question as to the Christian’s proper conduct in his own sphere of life, his freedom and its limits, what he might do without scruple and what was forbidden to him as a Christian, often arose in areas where one would not have expected it.
“A chief reason for this is that in the post-classical world in which Christianity grew up, the spheres of the cultic and the secular in paganism ran into one another in quite a different way from what they do today. This explains, for example, why, in 1 Corinthians 8-10 Paul was obliged to discuss at such length what was for the Corinthians anything but a captious question – whether a Christian might buy meat offered for sale in the market place which might have bem left over from the sacrifice in one of the nearby temples and found its way to the stalls. Or the question of whether a Christian might have an easy mind in joining heathen friends and relatives at a meal following a sacrifice.
[You may wonder how it was that meat left over from a heathen sacrifice could find its way to the marketplace. If you visit our main site you will find how very close some of the heathen temples were to the Agora in Corinth. No doubt in those days surplus meat had to be disposed of very quickly, and sending it to the market would have been an obvious solution. - Patricia]
“To these and other everyday questions the “spirit-filled” people had given a considered answer applicable to every case: “All things are lawful” (1 Corinthians 6:12 and 10:23). They paraded their freedom to the point of licentiousness, in contrast to the rest, whose scruples made them uneasy about any defilement and, to preserve their faith, forced them into a strict asceticism…
“Paul does not deal with the question by way of casuistry and law. He allows freedom where it is compatible with faith. But he also says “No, and no again” where there is notorious playing fast and loose with the Christian faith, where outrage is done to moral principles accepted on all hands – even by the heathen (1 Corinthians 5:1 et seq) – and where it involves betrayal of the new life available in Christ to believers (1 Corinthians 6:1 et seq).
“1 Corinthians 8-10 in particular is significant in that Paul resolutely brushes aside all the enthusiansts’ pseudo-theological arguments to justify themselves by taking the theme of responsibility for the others before God and the world as his line of approach to the questions. This is also very apparent in the detailed treatment of the serious abuses in the Corinthians’ worship.
“When they celebrated the Lord’s Supper, they were sincerely convinced that in the sacrament they participated in the redmption wrought by Christ. Yet, at the common meal accompanying it, those better off did not bother about the poorer who came later and had nothing with them.
“In Paul’s view this was profanation of the “body” of Christ – the church (1 Corinthians 20 and 11). He takes the same means of checking the tumultuous contests of the “spirituals” who broke out into ecstatic utterance during worship, and insists on the intelligible, clear word of preaching which might convince outsiders and unbelievers, and win them over…
“Paul took two ways of flinging himself into this chaos and reducing it to order. First, he sent 1 Corinthians, it being in fact, as shown by 1 Corinthians 5:9, at least his second letter to this church. Second, he sent his true helper Timothy to Corinth. Initially both seem to have had some effect. Nevertheless, as 2 Corinthians shows, this was not lasting, and Paul had soon to pass through a renewed and much more acute phase in the struggle with opponents who led the Church astray and stirred it to rebellion against the apostle himself.
“We can at least sketch the causes and course of these dramatic events…………..”
Bornkamm also discusses the fragmentary nature of 2 Corinthians, which he explains as not a single letter, but a collection of several of Paul’s letters to the Church at Corinth at various times during this struggle, put together (not even in chronological order) by someone else later so they could be transmitted to other churches.
“Paul” by Gunther Bornkamm is a very scholarly book, dealing with the historical life of Saint Paul and his Epistles to the churches he founded, and it really is worth reading. I do have some reservations, particularly on his comments about the veracity of Luke’s account in Acts of events in Paul’s life. Just from a common-sense point of view, we know that Luke spent a lot of time with Paul – why parts of his account of Paul’s life should be written off as stylistic invention I don’t know – maybe I need to read some other authors on the topic. But even if one does not go along with everything the author says on Paul’s life, his explanation of the historical scene behind the writing of the Epistles is valuable.
It helps to remember that in Paul’s day there was no “scripture”, and that in some ways this great Saint, who was not one of the original 12 and who never knew Jesus in the flesh, developed his own version of Christianity based on his personal conversion by the risen Christ. He remained true to his vision through over 30 years of evangelising, gruelling travel, bodily suffering and danger. It also helps to remember that as the Apostle to the Gentiles, Paul found himself in the thick of some very troublesome issues around reconciling his Gentile converts with strict requirements of the Law of Hebrew religion. I have found this book very thought-provoking.
If you are interested in Saint Paul’s words about the Full Armor of God in Ephesians 6 : 13-17, visit my Full Armor of God Blog – I am adding to it regularly.
I just have to pass on to you a wonderful site that Scotty passed on to me.
It’s the “Life Today” site of Life Outreach International run by James and Betty Robison. In addition to all their great work in Africa, they have a streaming TV program on their site. As it happens, today’s program (3 March) is an interview with Australian writer Christine Caine, pastor of Hillsong Church, Australia and the author of the book “Stop Acting Like a Christian, Just Be One”.
What a great interview this is. Christine’s down-to-earth Australian approach is well matched by James’s wonderful humor. There is a lot to be learned from this interview – it is warm, full of heart, full of the Lord and very empowering.
To watch it, go HERE and search for the item for Monday 3 March 2008 – Christine Caine: Genuine Christianity.
Unfortunately, it has to be said that most often businesses run by Christians are very little different from businesses run by non-Christians. True, Christian businesses pay their taxes and try not to rip people off – but many businesses run by people who do not attend church do that too.
What is wrong? Christians are supposed to be in touch with the Creator – one would expect them to have some “inside knowledge” that would help them to stand out in some way at what they do. If you ask me, what is wrong is that we do not look at the Bible as a business manual. We do not even think that having a business is anything to do with our spirituality.
Somehow or other, those of us who do not have a pastor’s calling are branded as second-class citizens who have to be grateful we are saved by God’s grace, and try to keep ourselves out of trouble until we are called to the happy hunting grounds. If somehow we can bring people to our Church, or make financial contributions to the Church’s running, we are doing the little bit for God that our second-class citizenship permits us to do. Getting people to Church isn’t always easy either – all we can offer is a gloomy view of damnation for the unsaved and a retirement plan for those who accept Jesus as their saviour. Sadly, but not surprisingly, the unsaved who are struggling to make ends meet, manage their families and their relationships, regard this stuff as superfluous to living day-to-day.
If you get the feeling that somewhere something is missing, you are not far off the track. What is missing from this picture is the full understanding of who God is and what His nature and purposes are. It would surprise many people – even Christians – to learn that the Bible (both Testaments, note) is an infallible guidebook not only to living, but also to running businesses that are not only successful, but also stand out like beacons above the crowd.
In the middle of last year, I purchased a second-hand book from our New Zealand equivalent of Ebay. It is called “Doing Business God’s Way” and was first written in 1995 by Dennis Peacocke. You can view it on Amazon HERE. Read the Customer Reviews – they are very helpful.
As I progressed in reading this book, I was thrilled at the way it clarified God’s purposes in MY life. It actually is more than a book for business-owners: everyone should read it because it holds the keys to what “the rest of us” are doing here on earth. All of us I think tend to look on the Bible as some kind of repository of moral precepts, but it takes a man of anointed perception to lead us to a deeper and more practical and all-encompassing view than that. And that perception has a rock-solid grounding in the whole of scripture, moreover.
Put briefly, the book blew me away: I have read a good many books on aspects of Christianity since I was baptized in October 2006, but none of them affected me as strongly as this one. Now in my 4th reading, I am still amazed at the potential of this book for impact on individual, business, state and nation “lives”. I lent the book to my Bible Studies teacher and he is still asking me to find him a copy.
Three months ago, having wondered what Dennis Peacocke has been doing with his inspired concepts since he wrote it, I googled his name and found he has a website called Strategic Christian Services, which carries on and develops the teachings of his books, via audio and video.
He has Strategic Life Training courses and Business Leadership courses, to train and empower people in bringing the Father’s business principles down to this earth, which is one of the places they are meant to operate, through people like you and me. I have signed up for BLS100, his introductory course in business leadership and I have to say I am REALLY excited as I begin the course and start delving deeper into these teachings. Hopefully later I’ll be able to help impart them to others.
If this interests you, read the book – you will not be disappointed. If you are sceptical, don’t burst into print – read the book. You should learn something.
Note about Dennis Peacocke from his website: He “has carried a concern for social justice for over 35 years. In his college days, this concern was expressed through his involvement in the civil rights and free speech movements. He graduated from Berkeley in political science at the height of the turbulent 60’s. Since his conversion in 1968, Dennis has gained international respect as a strategist due to his unique way of applying biblical solutions to the many challenging issues facing families, churches, business, and government.
“A former business owner, Dennis is the founder and president of Strategic Christian Services, a leadership organization dedicated to demonstrating the relevance of Christianity to every area of contemporary life. He has authored three books: “Winning the Battle for the Minds of Men”, published in 1987 and 2000, “Doing Business God’s Way”, published in 1994 and 2003, and “The Emperor Has No Clothes” published in 2003. He has also recorded numerous audio and video presentations. Dennis and his wife Jan reside in Santa Rosa, California. They have three adult children and seven grandchildren.”
A couple of weeks ago I clicked on an advert from one of the Christian sites I visit often and found myself on the Gospel for Asia site. I had never been there before and seeing they were advertising a free book, I put in my information to get one. I think the more we know about what’s going on to spread God’s word around the world, the better.
The book arrived in the course of last week, and as it happened, it got left outside on a pile of timber. By the time I picked it up it had lain out in a very heavy rainstorm overnight. The book was now a solid, sodden block of paper and I pretty much despaired of ever being able to read it.
Anyway, I laid it on top of my dehumidifier – which at this time of the year runs nearly 24/7 - and over the next 48 hours began to tease apart the pages (240 in all). Glory be – the print was holding out, the pages were holding out, and gradually my hopes began to rise. The book isn’t completely dry yet, and for sure it will never look the same again, but I was able to start reading from the beginning (the driest part) and have been rivetted by the story.
I’m only half way through but I’m moved to share this with you. It starts with the author, K P Yohannan, as a very shy young boy in India, the youngest of 12, who alone of his family is drawn to the ministry. He tells how the Holy Spirit empowered him against all the odds to begin carrying Jesus’ message to the souls in Northern India, and how, led by God, these early beginnings have developed into a huge ministry covering India and other Asian countries.
This book is an inspiration, and it’s well-written. It is also a wake-up call to those of us who are stuck in our own little Christian surroundings, to look out and see the realities of Christianity in the rest of the world. Not only is this a story of reaching millions with the Gospel, there are also some fascinating experiences and valuable insights into Christianity and spreading the Gospel by one who has been places and seen things most of us will never see.
If you are not already aware of Gospel for Asia, I really recommend you go to this site, put in your order for this free book – “Revolution in World Missions” – today, and support them if you can. All our little trials and tribulations suddenly get put into perspective. I am so grateful I was led to order this book – and so grateful it came through “The Flood” for me.
Go to the Gospel for Asia main site – there are some interesting things there – and you should see the free book ad on the rotator. If you miss it – click HERE.
We all have bumps in the road, in our journeys, and the bible records this over and over again.
JOHN 16:33.
So I will ask all of you, to please be patient with me and pray please pray for me, and my ministry, that God gives me the right words to encourge one and other.
HEBREWS 10:23-25
So with out going into why I disappered, I want to be faithful in this blog, and will try not to depart from this calling.
If you need prayer, I want you to be able to ask me for support, and prayers.
This is not just about me, I want to be willing to share my and your thoughts, and prayer requests, for yourself and for others that you care about.
Two weeks off the net due to computer problems has given me time to get some design work done on my Full Armor of God Blog – Full Armor of God Warriors and also a rather graphical series I’ve called “The Attacks” – ways the devil has of socking it to us in our daily lives.
